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Tooth Fairy

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Tooth Fairy reviews
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3.4 User Score:

Generally unfavorable reviews

Based on 24 critic reviews
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Based on 13 votes
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Movie Info

Genre(s): Comedy  |  Fantasy

Written by: Lowell Ganz
Babaloo Mandel
Joshua Sternin, Jeffrey Ventimilia
Randi Mayem Singer

Directed by: Michael Lembeck

Release Date:
Theatrical: January 22, 2010

Running Time: 102 minutes, Color

Origin: USA | Canada

Summary

RATING: PG for mild language, some rude humor and sports action

Starring Dwayne Johnson, Ashley Judd, Julie Andrews, Stephen Merchant, and Ryan Sheckler

Derek Thompson is a hard-charging hockey player whose nickname comes from his habit of separating opposing players from their bicuspids. When Derek discourages a youngster's dreams, he's sentenced to one week's hard labor as a real tooth fairy, complete with the requisite tutu, wings and magic wand. At first, Derek "can't handle the tooth" - bumbling and stumbling as he tries to furtively wing his way through strangers' homes...doing what tooth fairies do. But as Derek slowly adapts to his new position, he begins to rediscover his own forgotten dreams. (20th Century Fox)

What The Critics Said

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70

Variety Lael Loewenstein

Scores a goal for kids and adults alike.

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63

Washington Post Michael O'Sullivan

Tooth Fairy is cute. Which is to say that Dwayne Johnson is cute. How could anybody with the body of Arnold Schwarzenegger (circa 1984) and the smile of Cameron Diaz not be, especially when dressed -- albeit briefly -- in a pink tutu?

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60

The Hollywood Reporter Ethan Alter

Dwayne Johnson's energetic performance enlivens an otherwise by-the-numbers family comedy.

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58

Entertainment Weekly Missy Schwartz

British comic Stephen Merchant (Extras), exudes an easier charm as a goofy fairyland caseworker who harbors big dreams of his own.

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50

St. Louis Post-Dispatch Calvin Wilson

The comedy is so lame that the whole enterprise comes across as depressing.

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50

Arizona Republic Bill Goodykoontz

Focus. Tooth Fairy isn't as bad as you may have feared. It's not all that good, either, but at least it's possible to sit through it and hold down your popcorn.

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50

Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert

There's no way I can recommend this movie to anyone much beyond the Tooth Fairy Believement Age, but I must testify it's pleasant and inoffensive, although the violence in the hockey games seems out of place.

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50

The Globe and Mail (Toronto) Stephen Cole

Sorry to disappoint anyone who saw the cast list of this film and presumed Julie Andrews was going to play the horrific serial killer Tooth Fairy from the Hannibal Lecter movies.

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50

San Francisco Chronicle Amy Biancolli

Tooth Fairy would be substantially less likable without Johnson's native-born flair for self-abasement.

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42

The Onion (A.V. Club) Tasha Robinson

For a bad, broad comedy, Tooth Fairy boasts a surprising number of positives. Which isn’t to say that it’s good, but it could be much, much worse.

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40

Boxoffice Magazine Pete Hammond

Strictly for 6 year olds, this uninspired, one-joke comedy is full of too many misfired gags and weak comic setups to cross over to anyone whose head reaches above the seat back.

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40

New York Daily News Elizabeth Weitzman

Tooth Fairy's script -- which was written by five people -- is lousy, and the direction, by Michael Lembeck, is weak.

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40

The New York Times Stephen Holden

Watching the first half-hour of Tooth Fairy is like reaching into a grab bag of novelties, as the movie unveils its tricks... After that, the wit more or less evaporates, replaced by bloated sentimentality and clumsy plot exposition.

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40

Village Voice Tim Grierson

Johnson seems perfectly happy coasting through bland mediocrities. It used to be that his former career as a wrestler was his biggest obstacle to becoming a Hollywood star--now, it appears to be laziness.

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38

USA Today Claudia Puig

Tooth Fairy will make your teeth ache and your skin crawl.

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38

Orlando Sentinel Roger Moore

That Disney touch (which even Disney has trouble replicating) is missing. Even the hockey is unconvincing.

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38

Chicago Tribune Michael Phillips

The poster’s the funniest thing about the project: Johnson, sporting a pair of fairy wings larger than his forearms, glaring at the camera.

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38

Philadelphia Inquirer Carrie Rickey

Michael Lembeck directs with the subtlety of a sledgehammer, pounding every joke and cliche until they are flat, flat, flat.

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30

Slate Josh Levin

In the hierarchy of things that creep into your house, the tooth fairy ranks somewhere beneath Santa Claus and above the Formosan termite.

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30

Austin Chronicle Kimberley Jones

How many screenwriters does it take to screw in this dim bulb? Five – no joke – and another one credited with “story by.”

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25

New York Post Lou Lumenick

Charmless and underdeveloped knockoff of "The Santa Clause."

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25

Boston Globe Wesley Morris

For what it’s worth, Tooth Fairy is a somehow dimmer cousin of those Tim Allen “Santa Clause’’ movies.

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20

Time Out New York Aaron Hillis

Hollow as a cavity.

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10

NPR Scott Tobias

The only apparent reason Tooth Fairy exists at all is to squeeze tough-guy ex-wrestler Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson into tights and a tutu. As comic ideas go, that doesn't stretch much further than the poster.

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What Our Users Said

The average user rating for this movie is 3.4 (out of 10) based on 13 User Votes

Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.

William B. gave it an8:
A fun movie, full of humor and pathos.

Rusty S gave it an8:
Finally, a role perfect for The Rock!

Chad S. gave it a5:
With Santa Claus, there's territorial boundaries involved, which preclude the appearance of any potential transgression between the tooth fairy and his client. For starters, Santa is situated in the living room, where he eats the cookies and drinks the milk, then climbs back up the chimney. It's the children who do the spying, not the other way around. Santa doesn't enter bedrooms, unlike the tooth faeries, male(!) tooth faeries, that Lily(Julie Andrews) recruits into her guild: grown men in effeminate ballerina outfits who reach under children's pillows and leave behind a dollar bill, hopefully, for just the tooth. Whereas no background search appears to be needed for Derek(Dwayne Johnson), a journeyman hockey player doing time for a second-rate minor league hockey team(shades of "Bull Durham), Ziggy(Seth McFarland), on the other hand, a colleague who sells Derek black market tooth faerie paraphernalia, seems decidedly less clean-cut, hardly the sort of man any parent would want hovering above their unconscious child. In "Tooth Fairy", a sort of "Men in Baby Blue"(it borrows liberally from the Will Smith vehicle), parents apparently aren't the purveyors of magic, the ones who ante up the buck to facilitate the tooth faerie myth, since magic exists. That's the conceit put forward by one group of writers: the presumption that some stranger will break into homes to provide a service for those parting ways with their baby teeth. Another group of writers, however, ignorant to the movie's most fundamental rule(tooth faeries exist), have it both ways, in an incongruous scene where some father enacts the tooth faerie role, therefore relegating the whole profession back to the world of make-believe, because it's parents all along, who provide their offspring with magic.

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